{"id":177535,"date":"2024-06-20T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177535"},"modified":"2024-06-20T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:05:04","slug":"sunny-days-and-uphill-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/20\/sunny-days-and-uphill-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny days and uphill struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some days it feels like you only have to turn over in bed to strain something. This is not life enhancing. Today is such a day. Usual afternoon here at Stone Towers. Piano reading practice Recording and stuff until now. Doing stuff is on average about 5 hours a day I guess the rest is just fannying about. There is I suspect a lot of subconscious stuff going on when I am zoning out. I am a bit more energetic, but I have to watch as my body seems a lot more fragile these days. I am not bothering to follow much of the election stuff now. I did read a bbc news article about people that don&#8217;t vote anymore or never have. One young woman said her family never did. It was very much a thing that our family always did. Perhaps, because then the memory&#8217;s of WWII were very fresh for people of my parents age.  It mattered a lot to then that we had been able to survive as a  democracy and not be over run. My vote is unlikely to matter but having the franchise is important.  Many people now seem to think that politics is just a game where people make false promises to get elected. I cannot argue too much with the logic behind that though.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Edges Are Dull by Diana Stones Glasscage\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1852860996&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=906&#038;maxwidth=604\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>At the time of writing it&#8217;s the summer solstice. And I am still looking for answers to make sense of life generally so no change there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days it feels like you only have to turn over in bed to strain something. This is not life enhancing. Today is such a day. Usual afternoon here at Stone Towers. Piano reading practice Recording and stuff until now. Doing stuff is on average about 5 hours a day I guess the rest is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/20\/sunny-days-and-uphill-struggles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunny days and uphill struggles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kbt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":165261,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/07\/19\/notes-from-a-lazy-sunday-afternoon\/","url_meta":{"origin":177535,"position":0},"title":"Notes from a lazy Sunday afternoon","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was a strangely mixed day. 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